WILLIAM P. MACARTHUR
(1814-1850) Navy officer, hygrographer. Commanded the first scientific survey
of the Pacific Coast from Monterey to Columbia.
FLORA MACDONALD
(1722-1790) Scottish Jacobite heroine. Resided in North Carolina 1774-1779.
THOMAS MACDONAUGH
(1783-1825) Naval officer in the Tripoli Wars and War of 1812.
EDWARD A. MACDOWELL
(1861-1908) Musician, composer. His works were highly original and colorful.
IRVIN MACDOWELL
(1818-1885) Soldier in Mexican War and a General in the in Union Army.
JULIAN W. MACK
(1866-1943) Federal judge and friend of Chief Justice Brandeis. Chairman of
Jewish delegation to the Peace Conference 1919.
NORMAN E. MACK
(1858-1932) Established the Sunday Times in Buffalo 1879.
JOHN W. MACKAY
(1831-1902) Founder of Postal Telegraph Co. in San Francisco.
KENNETH A. J. MACKENZIE
(1797-1861) Fur trader, merchant. Organized the Columbia Fur Co. in 1822.
Active in the upper Missouri fur trade.
WILLIAM MACLAY
(1734-1804) Member of the first U.S. Congress from Pennsylvania
Senator from 1789-1791.
DONALD MACLEAY
(1834-1897) Shipowner, banker, from Portland, Oregon.
WILLIAM F. MACLENNAN
(????-????) Worked for Treasury Dept. as Chief of Warrants, Estimates and
Appropriations 1871-1909.
ALEXANDER MACOMB
(1782-1841) One of the first to attend West Point. Active in the War of 1812.
Commanding General U.S. Army 1828. Head of the Corps of Engineers 1821.
NATHANIEL MACON
(1758-1837) Revolutionary soldier from North Carolina. Congressman
Speaker of the House, Senator 1815-1828.
FRANKLIN MACVEAGH
(1837-1934) Wholesale grocer. Secretary of the Treasury 1909-13.
WAYNE MACVEAGH
(1833-1917) Attorney General 1881. Minister to Turkey and Italy.
DOLLY MADISON
(1768-1849) Wife of James Madison 1794. Actual first name Dolley.
JAMES MADISON
(1750-1836) Secretary of State 1801. President 1809-1817.
JOHN N. MAFFITT
(1819-1886) Confederate Navy officer, Commander of combat and blockade ships
JAMES G. MAGUIRE
(1853-1920) Congressman from California 1893-1899.
PATRICK S. MAHONEY
(1888-1942) Merchant seaman lost on the "S.S.J.A. Moffett" torpedoed off the
Florida Keys in 1942.
ALEXANDER MAJORS
(1814-1900) Founder of the Pony Express in 1860.
FRANKLIN P. MALL
(1862-1917) Head of the Medical Departwtent Johns Hopkins 1914.
EDMOND MALLET
(1842-1907) Writer and historian influential in French-American circles.
CLIFFORD D. MALLORY
(1881-1941) Asst. Director of Shipping operations for War Shipping Board during
the first World War. Founder of the Mallory Steamship Co.
STEPHEN R. MALLORY
(1813-1873) Senator from Florida 1851-1860. Confederate Secretary of the Navy
DAULTON MANN
(1893-1941) Vice-president of Panama Mail and Grace Line.
HORACE MANN
(1896-1859) Responsible for the public school system in the U.S.. Congressman
from Massachusetts 1848-1853.
JAMES MANNING
(1738-1791) President of Rhode Island College 1765.
JACOB S. MANSFELD
(1835-1894) Brought first newspaper to Nevada. Established Pioneer News
Bureau in Arizona. Drafted first charter for Tucson. First regent U. of Arizona.
ARCHIBALD R. MANSFIELD
(1871-1934) Clergyman active in New York City Seaman's Inststitue.
RICHARD MANSFIELD
(1854-1907) Foremost actor and opera singer in later part of Nineteenth Century.
WILLIAM L MARCY
(1786-1857) Senator from New York 1831-1833. Governor of New York 1833-1839.
Secretary of War 1845-1849. Secretary of State 1853-1857.
FRANCIS MARION
(1732-1793) South Carolina Revolutionary War soldier known as "Swamp Fox".
JOHN H. MARION
(1836-1891) Editor of Prescott, Arizona, newspaper 1862.
EDWIN MARKHAM
(1852-1940) Oregon poet. Author of "The Man With a Hoe", one of the most
popular poems of all time, first published in the San Francisco Examiner 1899.
WARREN P. MARKS
(1924-1943) Merchant seaman killed in the bombing of the "S.S. Timothy
Pickering" while discharging in Sicily 1943.
PERE MARQUETTE
(1637-1675) Jesuit missionary and explorer. With Joliet he was the
first to follow the course of the Mississippi River.
DON MARQUIS
(1878-1937) Journalist, humorist from Illinois. Wrote for New York Evening Sun.
GEORGE A. MARR
(1866-1943) Expert on Inland Waterways. Influential in making the Great Lakes
one of the world's most important inland waterways.
ANDREW MARSCHALK
(????-1837) Brought first printing press to Mississippi 1797. Edited and printed
several early Mississipi newspapers.
GRANT P. MARSH
(1834-1915) Mississippi River pilot and riverboat captain. Friend of Mark Twain.
CHARLES H. MARSHALL
(1792-1865) Sea captain, shipping executive. Commanded packet ships. Principal
owner of the Black Ball Line.
JAMES W. MARSHALL
(1810-1885) Co-founder of gold in California with Sutter.
JOHN MARSHALL
(1755-1835) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court 1801-1835. Secretary of
State 1800.
LOUIS MARSHALL
(1856-1929) Publisher from New York. President of the American Jewish League.
THOMAS R. MARSHALL
(1854-1925) Governor of Indiana 1908. Vice President 1913-1921. Best known for
"What this country really needs is a good 5 cent cigar".
JOSE MARTI
(1853-1895) Cuban patriot and author.
ALEXANDER MARTIN
(1740-1807) Governor of North Carolina 1782-84, 1789-92. U.S. Senator 1793-1799.
JOSEPH H. MARTIN
(1895-1943) World expert on poultry science, from Purdue University.
LUTHER MARTIN
(1748-1829) Revolutionary patriot from New Jersey. Lawyer who defended Aaron
Burr at his treason trial 1807.
O. B. MARTIN
(1870-1935) Agricultural expert from South Carolina.
FLORENCE MARTUS
(1863-1943) Savannah character known as the "Waving Girl", who waved at
seamen sailing in and out of that port for 43 years. Ships answered
with 3 blasts.
ROSS G. MARVIN
(1880-1909) Arctic explorer who accompanied Peary party that discovered North
Pole 1908-1909. Lost in the Arctic 1909.
WINTHROP L. MARVIN
(1863-1926) Steamship official. Member U.S. Merchant Marine Committee 1901-
1904. General Manager American Steamship Association.
THOMAS G. MASARYK
(1850-1937) First president of Czechoslovakia 1918-1935.
JOHN MASON
(1600-1672) Settled in Massachusetts 1633. Founded Windsor, Mass. 1635.
COTTON MATHER
(1662-1727) Puritan clergyman, scholar, author.
STEPHEN T. MATHER
(1867-1930) As Assistant Secretary of the Interior he was the organizer of the
National Park Service.
CHRISTY MATHEWSON
(1880-1925) Baseball pitcher with the New York Giants who won 511 games.
CLARENCE H. MATSON
(1872-1943) As Port Commissioner was responsible for the development of Los
Angeles Harbor.
WILLIAM MATSON
(1849-1917) Foumder of the Matson Navigation Co.
BRANDER MATTHEWS
(1852-1929) Author born in New Orleans. Taught literature at Columbia 1892-1924.
GEORGE MATTHEWS
(1855-1911) Editor of the Buffalo Express.
STANLEY MATTHEWS
(1824-1889) Senator from Ohio 1877-1879. Supreme Court Justice 1881-1889.
MATTHEW MAURY
(1806-1873) Naval officer, oceanographer. Did the first in depth studies
of winds and currents. Responsible for the uniform system of recording
oceanographic data.
HIRAM S. MAXIM
(1840-1916) Inventor of the "Maxim" machine gun 1883.
LUCIEN B. MAXWELL
(1818-1873) Frontiersman, rancher, Indian fighter who served with the Fremont
Expedition 1845-1846.
WILLIAM W. MAYO
(1818-1911) Surgeon. Father of the famous Mayo brothers.
MAYO BROTHERS
(1861-1939) William Mayo. (1865-1939) Charles Mayo. Surgeons who founded the
Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. 1889.
FILLIP MAZZEI
(1730-1816) Italian who came to Virginia in 1773 and introduced grapes, olives,
and other fruits. Confidante of Thomas Jefferson.
WILLIAM G. MCADOO
(1853-1930) Congressman from New Jersey 1883-1891. Assistant Secretary of the
Navy 1893-1897. Senator from California 1933-1938. Secretary of the Treasury
1913-1918. Candidate for President 1920 and 1924.
CHARLES A. MCALLISTER
(1867-1932) Marine engineer. Chief Engineer of the Revenue Cutter Service U.S.
Coast Guard. President Ameican Bureau of Shipping 1919.
ROBERT R. MCBURNEY
(1837-1898) Responsible for the organization of the YMCA.
JOHN L. MCCARLEY
(1916-1942) Merchant seaman killed in the bombing and strafing of the "S.S. Pan
Kraft" off Iceland 1942.
LORENZO C. MCCARTHY
(1881-1941) Catholic theologian who became President of Providence College
1927, at which time he was regarded as youngest college president in U.S.
MORTON M. MCCARVER
(1807-1875) Founded town of Tacoma, Wash.
C. K. MCCLATCHY
(1858-1936) Editor of the Sacramento Bee 1884.
JAMES H. MCCLINTOCK
(1864-1934) Arizona journalist and soldier. Commanded a troop of "Rough Riders"
in Spanish American War 1898.
CYRUS H. MCCORMICK
(1808-1884) Inventor of the reaping machine 1831.
JAMES MCCOSH
(1811-1894) Presbyterian clergyman. President of Princeton 1868.
ISAAC MCCOY
(1784-1846) Baptist missionary in Indonesia.
W.W. MCCRACKIN
(1842-1913) Early day banker in Butte and Hamilton, Montana 1880s.
GEORGE W. MCCRARY
(1835-1890) Congressman from Iowa 1869-1877. Secretary of War 1877-1879.
CHARLES A. MCCUE
(1879-1942) Agriculturist with the U.S. Forest Service.
HUGH MCCULLOCH
(1808-1895) Secretary of the Treasury 1884.
JOSEPH S. MCDONAGH
(1878-1944) Union official with the International Brotherhood of Electricians.
ANGUS MCDONALD
(1878-1944) President of Southern Pacific R.R. 1932.
JOHN MCDONOGH
(1779-1850) Merchant and philanthropist in New Orleans.
BERT MCDOWELL
(????-1942) Merchant seaman lost when the "S.S. Virginia" was torpedoed off the
mouth of the Mississippi in 1942.
GEORGE B. MCFARLAND
(1866-1942) Known as the "Grandfather of Modern Medicine in Thailand". He
served the .Bangkok community as doctor and dentist for 25 years.
THOMAS A. MCGINLEY
(1880-1940) Graduated Yale 1901. President of Duff Manufacturing, Pittsburgh.
JOHN J. MCGRAW
(1873-1934) Manager of the New York Giants 1902-1932.
CHARLES N. MCGROARTY
(????-????) Public Department Service, U.S. Treasury.
WILLIAM II. MCGUFFEY
(1800-1873) President of Ohio University 1839. Famous for "McGuffey Reader".
PETER J. MCGUIRE
(1852-1906) Bom in Philadelphia. One of the founders of A.F. of L. 1886. Founder
of Labor Day.
JAMES MCHENRY
(1785-1845) Irish poet and novelist from Baltimore. Author of historical tales.
JOHN H. MCINTOSH
(1858-1941) General council for New York Life.
SAMUEL MCINTYRE
(1757-1811) Architect. Renowned wood carver.
CHARLES D. MCIVER
(1860-1906) President of the North Carolina College for women 1892-1906.
GEORGE P. MCKAY
(1838-1918) A leader in development of the "Great Lakes Trade". Pioneered
construction of steel ships on Great Lakes.
JAMES I. MCKAY
(1792-1853) Congressman from North Carolina 1831-1849.
THOMAS MCKEAN
(1734-1817) Signer of the Declaration of Independence from Pennsylvania.
WILLIAM W. MCKEE
(1916-1942) Merchant seaman lost on the "S.S. Bienville, sunk by Japanese
bombers in the Bay of Bengal 1942.
JOSEPH MCKENNA
(1843-1926) Congressman from California 1885-1892. U.S. Attorney General 1897-
1898. Supreme Court Justice 1898-1925.
WILLIAM M. MCKINLEY
(1843-1901) Congressman from Ohio 1877-1891. Governor 1891-1896. President of
the U.S. 1896-1901. He was assassinated in Buffalo 1901.
JOHN MCKINLEY
(1780-1852) Senator from Alabama 1826-1831. Congressman 1833-1835. Supreme
Court Justice 1837-1852.
COLLIN MCKINNEY
(1873-1944) Justice of the Supreme Court of Tennessee 1918-1944.
LOUIS MCLANE
(1786-1857) Congressman from Deleware 1817-1827. Senator 1827-1829. Secretary
of the Treasury 1831-1833. Secretary of State 1833-1834. President of Baltimore
and Ohio R.R. 1837-1847.
JOHN MCLEAN
(1785-1861) Congressman from Ohio 1813-1816. Postmaster General 1823 -1829.
Supreme Court Justice 1829-1861.
WILLIAM L. MCLEAN
(1852-1931) Publisher, philanthropist. Published the Philadelphia Evening
Bulletin. Reorganized the United Press in 1900.
GEORGE B. McCLELLAN
(1826-1885) Explorer and Union General during Civil War. Presidential candidate
on the Democratic ticket 1864.
JOHN MCLOUGHLIN
(1784-1857) Fur trader. Chief factor of the Hudson Bay Co. Established Fort
Vancouver, the present city of Vancouver, Wa. 1825.
AUGUSTINE B. MCMANUS
(????-????) Graduate of N.Y. schoolship "St. Marys' 1895. Spanish War vet.
Many years with Hydrographic Bureau. Inagurated the ice patrol by the Coast
Guard after Titanic disaster.
JOHN T. MCMILLAN
(1885-1943) President Detroit and Cleveland Navigation Co. 1930-1943.
CHARLES L. MCNARY
(1874-1944) Senator from Oregon 1917-1940. McNary Dam is named for him.
R. NEY MCNEELEY
(1883-1915) North Carolina legislator appointed Consul to Aden 1915.
L. H. MCNELLY
(1844-1877) Texas Ranger who established law and order southern Texas 1870s.
JAMES B. MCPHERSON
(1828-1864) Union General during the Civil War from Ohio.
JOHN R. MCQUIGG
(1865-1928) Lawyer, banker, from Ohio. Served in World War 1 and became
commander of the American Legion 1925.
ELWOOD MEAD
(1858-1936) Irrigation engineer from Indiana. Director of the American Bureau of
Reclamation 1924.
GEORGE G. MEADE
(1815-1872) Soldier, engineer. Constructed the lighthouses on Chesapeake. Major
General during the Civil War.
THOMAS F. MEAGHER
(1823-1867) Irish born Union Civil War general. Governor of Montana 1865.
OTTO MEARS
(1840-1941) Russian born Colorado pioneer 1865. Constructed several toll roads
and the Rio Grande Southern Railroad in southwestern Colorado.
MILTON B. MEDARY
(1874-1929) Architect. Designed the Washington Memorial Chapel at Valley
Forge. Noted for his use of the Gothic style.
JOSEPH M. MEDILL
(1823-1899) Newspaperman. Founded the Cleveland Leader. Co-founder of the
Chicago Tribune. Founder of the Republican party.
EZRA MEECH
(1773-1856) Congressman from Vermont 1810-1821; 1825-1827.
JOSEPH L. MEEK
(1810-1875) Oregon pioneer. Settled in the Willamette Valley 1840.
EZRA MEEKER
(1830-1928) Oregon and Washington pioneer 1851.
HENRY MEIGGS
(1811-1877) Lumber merchant, railroad builder. Absconded to Peru leaving a
million dollars debt. Became head of Chilean Railroad.
JOHN W. MELDRUM
(1843-1936) Wyoming pioneer 1868. First U.S. Commissioner Yellowstone Park.
MARIE M. MELONEY
(1883-1943) Ne Mattingly to 1904. Editor of "Women's Magazine" 1914-1920.
HERMAN MELVILLE
(1819-1891) Author of "Moby Dick" 1851.
PEDRO MENENDEZ
(1519-1574) Spanish naval officer who colonized Florida and massacred French.
EDWIN T. MEREDITH
(1876-1928) Journalist, publisher. Founded "Better Homes and Gardens" 1922.
Secretary of Agriculture 1920-1921.
WILLIAM M. MEREDITH
(1799-1873) Secretary of the Treasury 1849-1850.
GEORGE E. MERRICK
(1886-1944) Developer of Coral Gables, Fla.. Founder of the University of Miami.
JOHN MERRICK
(1859-1919) Negro insurance executive who founded North Carolina Mutual Life
Insurance.
LEON S. MERRILL
(1864-1933) Agroculturist. Federal Food Administrator 1917-1918.
AUGUSTUS S. MERRIMON
(1830-1892) Senator from North Carolina 1873-1879.
ISRAEL J. MERRITT
(1829-1911) Salvage expert, inventor. Patented pontoon device for raising sunken
vessels.
LEONIDAS MERRITT
(1824-1926) Prospector who discovered the Masabi Range of ore in Minnesota 1887.
JESSE H. METCALF
(1860-1942) Senator from Rhode Island 1924-1937.
GEORGE VON L. MEYER
(1858-1918) U.S. Postmaster general 1907-1909. Secretary of the Navy 1909-1913.
MOINA MICHAEL
(1869-1944) Georgia educator who organized veteran's memorial "Poppy Day"in
1918.
CHRISTIAN MICHELSEN
(1857-1925) First Premier of Norway 1905-1907.
ALBERT A. MICHELSON
(1852-1931) Phycicist. Main contribution was the measuring the velocity
of light.
GEORGE MIDDLEMAS
(1829-1903) Pioneer shipbuilder on Pacific Coast. Was president of A.B. Patrick
Co. and the Middlemas Co.
ARTHUR MIDDLETON
(1742-1787) Signer of the Declaration of Independence. Member of the Continental
Congress. Congressman from South Carolina.
HENRY MIDDLETON
(1770-1846) Governor of South Carolina 1810-1812. Congressman 1815-1819.
Minister to Russia.
BENJAMIN R. MILAM
(1788-1835) Fought for Texas independence and was killed at the Alamo.
JOHN MILLEDGE
(1757-1818) Congressman from Georgia 1792-1793; 1795-1799; 1801-1802. Governor
of Georgia 1802-1806. Senator 1806-1809.
BEN H. MILLER
(1908-1942) War correspondent for Baltimore Evening Sun killed in World War II.
HARVEY C. MILLER
(1827-1916) Largest land owner in the West, owning 22,000 square miles in
California, Oregon and Nevada.
HENRY MILLER
(1800-1874) Physician who founded the Louisville Medical College.
JAMES B. MILLER
(1776-1851) War of 1812 general who became Governor of Arkansas 1819-1825.
JOAQUIN MILLER
(1839-1913) Poet and early Oregon settler. "Man with a Hoe" his best known work
JOHN MARTIN MILLER
(1910-1942) Merchant seaman lost on the "S.S. Potlatch" in 1942, when it was
torpedoed by the German submarine U153, east of the Virgin Islands in 1942.
JOHN MILLER
(1901-1943) Merchant seaman lost on the "S.S. Deer Lodge" when torpedoed off
South Africa 1943.
SAMUEL F. MILLER
(1816-1890) Justice of the Supreme Court from Iowa 1862-1890.
WEBB MILLER
(1892-1940) Foreign correspondent for United Press.
ABBOT L. MILLS
(1858-1927) Employed by A. A. Low Bros. operating clipper ships in China and
California trade. Moved to Oregon in 1882 and became prominent banker in
Portland.
ANSON MILLS
(1834-1924) Union soldier and Indian fighter, surveyor. Platted E1 Paso, Texas,
and gave the city it's name 1866.
CLARK MILLS
(1810-1883) Sculptor, pioneer bronze founder. Responsible for the statue of
Andrew Jackson, Lafayette Square, Washington D.C.
ENOS A. MILLS
(1870-1922) Naturalist, author. Creator of the Rocky Mountain National Park.
ROBERT MILLS
(1781-1.855) Architect, engineer. First native born professional architect.
JOHN MINTO
(1822-1915) Early Astoria, Oregon, settler 1844.
PETER MINUIT
(1580-1638) Director General of the Dutch colony of New Netherlands. Purchased
Manhattan Island for $24.00 in 1626.
A. PALMER MITCHELL
(1872-1936) Member of the 61st and 63rd Congresses from Pennsylvania. U.S.
Attorney General 1919-1921.
ALEXANDER MITCHELL
(1817-1.887) Banker, railroad builder, politician. President of the Chicago,
Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad. Congressman from Wisconsin 1871-1875.
BILLY MITCHELL
(1879-1936) Army aviator responsible for the growth of the U.S. Air Force.
ELISHA MITCHELL
(1793-1857) Presbyterian clergyman, geologist, botanist. Mt. Mitchell, North
Carolina, the highest peak in eastern U.S., is named for him.
JOHN MITCHELL
(1870-1919) Labor leader. President of the United Mineworkers.
JOHN P. MITCHELL
(1879-1918) Mayor of New York City 1913. Killed in World War I.
MARIA MITCHELL
(1818-1889) Astronomer, educator. Professor of Astronomy Vassar College 1865.
SILAS WEIR MITCHELL
(1829-1914) Physician, author. Union Army surgeon.
T. E. MITCHELL
(1874-1944) Mining engineer who developed the Anaconda Copper Mine - the
greatest ore deposit ever discovered.
RICHARD MOCZKOWSKI
(????-1942) Merchant seaman on the "S.S. Stephen Hopkins" sunk in the South
Atlantic 1942.
HELENA MODJESKA
(1840-1909) Polish-American Shakespearean actress.
MICHAEL JAMES MONOHAN
(1893-1942) Merchant seaman killed on the "S.S. Gulf America", when torpedoed
by the U-123, 5 miles off Jacksonville, in 1942.
FRANK ADAIR MONROE
(1844-1927) Judge. Confederate soldier from Maryland.
HARRIET MONROE
(1860-1936) Poet from Illinois. Founder, editor "Poetry: A Magazine of Verse".
JAMES MONROE
(1758-1831) President of the United States 1817-1825.
RICHARD MONTGOMERY
(1738-1775) Revolutionary War general killed in the seige of Quebec.
DWIGHT L. MOODY
(1837-1899) Evangelist who stimulated the YMCA on college campuses.
SAMUEL MOODY
(1676-1747) Instrumental in founding Congressional Church in Providence, R.I.
WILLIAM H. MOODY
(1853-1917) Congressman from Massachusetts 1895-1902. Secretary of the Navy
1902-1904. Attorney General 1904. Supreme Court Justice 1906-1910.
WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY
(1869-1910) Poet, playwright, educator, from University of Chicago.
ALFRED MOORE
(1755-1810) Revolutionary War soldier, jurist from North Carolina. Supreme
Court Justice 1799-1804.
ANDREW MOORE
(1752-1821) Revolutionary War soldier. Congressman from Virginia 1789-1797.
Senator 1804-1809.
EDWIN W. MOORE
(1810-1865) Naval officer from Virginia. Commanded the Republic of Texas Navy
JAMES BENNETT MOORE
(1899-1942) Merchant seaman lost on the "S.S. Masmar" off of Iceland in 1942.
JAMES MOORE
(????-1706) Indian trader born in Ireland. Settled Charleston 1675. Governor of
South Carolina 1700-1703. His birth date is unknown.
R. WALTON MOORE
(1859-1941) Congressman from Virginia 1919-1931.
RANSOM A. MOORE
(1861-1941) Agronomist from Wisconsin.
RICHARD B. MOORE
(1871-1931) Chemist. Credited with the use of helium in balloons.
ROGER MOORE
(1838-1900) Confederate officer from North Carolina. Prominent in state and
local affairs in the Reconstruction era.
MICHAEL MORAN
(1832-1906) Originally boat operator on the Erie Canal. Moved to New York and
started tug boat business. Built his first tug in 1878.
PETER MORAN
(1841-1914) Landscape and animal painter. Won high repute in field of animal
painting.
FRANCISCO M. MOREHEAD
(1799-1842) Central America statesman born in Honduras. First President of the
Confederation of Central America.
JOHN M. MOREHEAD
(1796-1866) Governor of North Carolina 1841-1845.
JOSE M. MORELOS
(1765-1815) National hero of Mexico. Follower of the patriot Hidalgo.
CHARLES MORGAN
(1795-1878) Shipping and railroad owner. Owner of the Morgan Line, running
between New York and New Orleans and Texas.
DANIEL MORGAN
(1736-1802) Revolutionary general commanding troops in North Carolina.
JOHN MORGAN
(1824-1907) Senator from Alabama 1877-1907.
JUSTIN S. MORRILL
(1810-1898) Congressman from Vermont 1855-1867. Senator 1866-1898.
LOT MORRILL
(1812-1883) Governor of Maine 1858-1860. Senator 1863-1876. Secretary of the
Treasury 1876-1877.
GOUVERNEUR MORRIS
(1752-1816) Member of the Continental Congress. Minister to France 1792. Senator
from New York 1800-1802.
IRA NELSON MORRIS
(1875-1942) Diplomat, author. Minister to Sweden.
LEWIS MORRIS
(1726-1798) Signer of the Declaration of Independence. Member of the
Congress 1775-1777, from New York.
ROBERT MORRIS
(1734-1806) Considered the man that financed the American Revolution. Member
of the Continental Congress and signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Senator from Pennsylvania 1789-1795.
PATRICK H. MORRISSEY
(1862-1916) Second Grand Master Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen 1895-1908.
DWIGHT W. MORROW
(1873-1931) Financier, diplomat. Partner in J. P. Morgan and Co.
Ambassador to Mexico. Senator from New Jersey 1930-1931.
SAMUEL F. B. MORSE
(1791-1872) Artist. Inventor of the telegraph 1844. Invented the "Morse Code".
J. STERLING MORTON
(1832-1902) Secretary of Agriculture 1893.
JOHN MORTON
(1724-1777) Signer of the Declaration of Independence and member of the
Continental Congress from Pennsylvania.
JOHN S. MOSBY
(1833-1916) Confederate calvary officer.
WILLIAM D. MOSELEY
(1795-1863) Born in North Carolina. Governor of Florida 1844-1851.
JOHN L. MOTLEY
(1814-1877) Historian, diplomat. Minister to Austria and England.
LUCRETIA MOTT
(1793-1880) Reformer, Quaker preacher. Active in women's rights movement.
WILLIAM MOULTRIE
(1730-1805) Revolutionary War general. Governor of South Carolina
1792-1796.
F. A. C. MUHLENBERG
(1750-1801) Member of the Continental Congress. Congressman from Perms,
1789-1797. Speaker of the House.
JOHN MUIR
(1838-1914) Naturalist, explorer, conservationist. Responsible for the
establishment of the Yosemite National Park.
WILLIAM MULHOLLAND
(1855-1935) Superintendant and engineer of the Los Angeles Waterworks.
ORSON D. MUNN
(1824-1907) Publisher and co-owner of the "Scientific American".
FRANK A. MUNSEY
(1854-1925) Publisher. Owner of N.Y. papers "Sun" "Herald" and "Telegram".
JOSEPH MURGAS
(1864-1929) Catholic priest from Slovakia. Artist and scientist. Had patents on
"Tone System of Wireless Telegraphy" which he sold to Marconi.
JOHN H. MURPHY
(1840-1922) Head of the Afro-American newspaper chain.
THOMAS W. MURRAY
(1903-1943) Merchant seaman lost on the "S.S. William C. McTarnahan"
when it was damaged by enemy action in the Gulf of Mexico 1943.
EDWIN MUSICK
(1894-1938) American aviator who commanded first flight of the "China
Clipper" in first trans Pacific passenger service.
JOHN F. MYERS
(????-????) Founder of Oregon Blind Trade School in Portland. Pioneer in adult
education for the blind.